Come and join us and help make a difference to the lives of our residents within West Sussex.
The Opportunity
Salary: £59,991 to £63,411 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time 37 hours per week
Location: County Hall, Chichester with hybrid and flexible working opportunities (occasional overnight stays to support the delivery of the role also required)
Interview date: Week commencing 20th July
This is a highly rewarding opportunity to provide professional expertise and support to the County Council in its role as Administering Authority for the West Sussex Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
You will be joining a high-performing and collaborative team at an exciting point in its evolution—shaped by national developments in LGPS asset management and significant local progress, including the introduction of the Sussex and Brighton Combined County Authority.
Our 92,000 members and 320 employers are at the heart of everything we do, and this role offers a real opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
As Pensions Accounting and Investment Manager, you will lead the effective management and continuous development of accounting and budgeting processes, alongside maintaining a strong financial control environment. You will play a key role in supporting the ongoing financial sustainability and resilience of the £6.0bn Pension Fund, both now and in the future, ensuring the secure delivery of benefits to our current 27,000 pensioners.
This role is not only about accounting stewardship. You will build and maintain strong relationships with strategic stakeholders, including working closely with the Border to Coast Pensions Partnership as an active partner, helping to deliver the Fund’s responsible and carefully considered investment objectives.
You will bring a mindset of continuous improvement, driving the delivery of efficient, effective, and customer-focused services. This includes championing service enhancements, embracing innovative problem-solving, and leading the management of emerging projects, policies, and strategies.
For further information about working in the LGPS sector please visit this short video https://vimeo.com/937582220?fl=pl&fe=cm
About you
- Motivated, experienced manager with the ability to lead, develop, and motivate diverse teams and external providers to achieve the Pension Team’s objectives.
- Strong organisational skills, adept at planning, prioritising, implementing service improvements and evaluating outcomes.
- Excellent communicator wide a range of stakeholders, including senior officers, Committee and Board Members, customers, and external provider to foster strong, responsive relationships.
- Flexible and adaptable, prepared to meet service demands and embrace change.
What are we looking for?
To be successful in the role you will need to:
- Ability to make pragmatic, evidence-based decisions with a broad understand of the service impact, able analyse complex technical, professional, resource or people related issues.
- Strong partnership skills, including co-ordinating stakeholders effectively to achieve objectives.
- Proficient in research, evaluation, and interpretation skills to draw conclusions and plan short to medium term actions.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of influencing, persuading, negotiating, challenging practices, and fostering innovative solutions.
- Effective people and performance management skills, providing leadership, guidance, and support to individuals and teams.
- Capable of set and review timescales and objectives to ensure effective service delivery.
For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.
Working for us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide a great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
- an excellent local government pension scheme
- generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- volunteering opportunities
- training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans
For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.
Further information
The reference number for this role is CRS01099.
For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Rachel Wood (Head of Pensions) at [email protected].
For issues or queries regarding your application please contact [email protected].
To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Application Form, on the application form please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the job description for the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.
Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.
We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.
